Phyllodytes megatympanum

Phyllodytes megatympanum is a frog. It lives in Brazil.[1][2]

Phyllodytes megatympanum
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Phyllodytes
Species:
P. megatympanum
Binomial name
Phyllodytes megatympanum
(Marciano, Lantyer-Silva, and Solé, 2017)
Synonyms[1]
  • Phyllodytes megatympanumCaramaschi and Peixoto, 2004

The skin of the frog's back and legs is light brown. The place where the legs meet the body is yellow. This frog's eardrum is very large. The eardrum is called a tympanum.[3]

References

  1. Frost, Darrel R. "Phyllodytes megatympanum Marciano, Lantyer-Silva, and Solé, 2017". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
  2. "Phyllodytes megatympanum". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
  3. Euvaldo Marciano Jr; Amanda Santiago F Lantyer-Silva; Mirco Solé (2017). "A new species of Phyllodytes Wagler, 1830 (Anura, Hylidae) from the Atlantic Forest of southern Bahia, Brazil". Zootaxa (Abstract). 4238 (1): 135–142. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4238.1.11. PMID 28264274.
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